Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Title: Confessions of a Part Time BrideAuthor: Hall BennettCover artist: "J.C."

Yours for: $10

Best things about this cover:

When they say "hands are hard to draw," they aren't kidding. Yikes.

What's most interesting to me are the *tiniest* suggestions of "bed": head is on a pillow, which I can tell is a pillow only by seeing the corner (which merges w/ the end of the word "Bride"); the small bit of ruffle on her shoulder, suggesting a frilly nightgown; the prominent ring emphasizing "it's marital!," raising questions about the suggestive "Part Time" part of the title ...

Really like the font on "Part Time Bride." Really wish "Part Time" were properly punctuated.

Best things about this back cover:

Kind of a cool logo, actually. It's all very saucy for the mid-'40s, frankly.

Page 123~

"It's probably just another poor fish—customer to you, sugar. Those birds—the police, I mean—aren't likely to be so reticent."

4 comments:

I'm not quite clear what the "$2.00 love novel" refers to. The price of the book is just to the left and is 25 cents. It seems as though there is a series called $2.00 love, which certainly sounds like prostitution.

It looks like they took the hyphen that should have been placed between the words "part" and "time," and placed it instead between the words "love" and "thrills." Does "love-thrills romance" make sense to anyone?

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